"Twang! Twang! Twang!" Kate sang happily, clapping her hands to the
beat. "The bows go twang, twang, twang!"
"Yes they do, Kate." Said Rosefyre in a tone she should have reserved for a puppy that had just learned how to sit on command. She picked up and arrow that had the arrowhead broken off. "Here's a stick! Go fetch the stick!" She then chucked the "stick" in the general direction of the fire- circle.
"What do you think I am?" Kate asked, giving Rosefyre a funny look.
"Ow!" Cleon yelled as the arrow hit him on the head. "Who threw that? My brain is in pain! Boo hoo! That really hur-" Suddenly his eyes rolled up and he fell over. No more said, completely unconscious.
"Don't worry, hun." Liney said, patting the unconscious Cleon on the arm reassuringly. "It's probably just a little bad karma."
"Oh!" Gregory exclaimed stepping nimbly over the fainted Cleon. "Is that that inner chi thang?"
"Probably!" Liney said happily. "You wanna spar?"
"Now, now, you two." Numair said. "I told you not to fight. You aren't properly trained in any of the weapons we have and you still aren't fully recovered yet."
"I meant with each other." Liney said, rolling her eyes.
"I got one!" Olivia yelled triumphantly, standing up, doing a little dance and waving her sling around happily.
"Sit down!" Kaytee said, yanking Olivia to the ground by tugging on the back of her shirt. "And watch where you're waving your weapon."
"Sorry." Olivia said, blushing slightly.
"You should be sorry!" Any said waving her arms around. "You could have been shot! You could have been killed! You could have been killed and shot!"
"Or worse," Lady Light said, "You could have been shot and killed."
"That's what she said!" Caprice cried. "Wait, isn't it?"
"Yes," said Lady Light. "I just thought it needed to be emphasized a little more."
"They're opening the gates!" Yelled Alanna.
"They're opening the gates!" Repeated Maria. She then paused and frowned, glancing nervously at the slowly opening gates. "They really are!"
"Well, duh." Diana said, sighing exasperatedly.
"Will somebody get my horse for me?" Kaitlin asked, shivering slightly.
Kel sighed and shook her head. "You've got no problems with fighting a big war, but you still get skittish around horses. I don't get it."
"I've had bad experiences with horses." Kaitlin said shyly.
"And you haven't had bad experiences with war?" Raganas asked.
"Well...yes...but horses are freaky!" Kaitlin cried. "And bad experiences really stick you know, especially ones that really hurt."
"Well, if at first you don't succeed try, try again." Samkin said.
"I prefer, if at first you don't succeed, don't try to fly." Krizsta said happily.
"Yeah..." Samkin said, "I guess that would work too."
"I wish I had a tail." Kate remarked out of the blue, still firing arrows at deadly accuracy. "It'd be so cool." She glanced forlornly at her tail- less rear, as if willing a tail to just pop up.
"I have a tail." Peter teased, snickering. "Do you want to see my tail?"
"You most certainly do not have a tai-" Kate stopped mid-argument. "That's disgusting, Peter!"
"We always get them with that, don't we?" Marc said, punching Peter playfully in the shoulder.
Peter fell over with the impact of the punch. "Marc!" He yelled. "Don't do that!"
"Marc!" Kathryn yelled. "Don't do that! Idiot."
"Geez," Marc said. "At least Peter was sort of nice about it."
"Feh!" Kathryn remarked simply.
"Feh yourself." Marc said, sticking out his tongue.
"Stop arguing and get back to fighting!" George shouted. "And don't take your eyes off your target."
"Anybody going into the herding masses, let us depart now from are humble set." Dom said with an artistic flourish.
"Don't get your pantyhose in a bunch." Krizsta said.
"Yeah, and why are you riding out?" Asked Daine. "You're an archer."
"Yes, but I'm an experienced archer." Dom said, becoming very full of himself, if I do say so myself. Indeed!
"I told you to not get your pantyhose in a bunch!" Krizsta said prodding Dom in the chest.
"I DON'T WEAR PANTYHOSE!" Screamed Dom, so loudly that mating birds in the nearby trees cheeped alarms and took flight.
"I should hope not, lad." Raoul said, mounting his horse.
"Well are you going or are you going to sit around like boobs all day?" Olivia asked.
"Well, personally I'd choose to be a boob, but well," Gregory said with a sigh, "duty calls, eh?" He grabbed a nearby horse and attempted to clamber onto it's back.
"Oh no you don't, laddie buck." Liney said grabbing Gregory's leg and yanking him back to the ground.
"Oof!" Gregory said landing on top of something vaguely squishy. "What is this thing?" He said, poking at it.
"It's me you idiot!" Liney yelled at Gregory, causing him to fall over.
"Whatever," Maria said. "I'm off." She grabbed the horse she had tacked up earlier and her sword and galloped into the mass of approaching enemies."
"Wait for me!" Yelled Diana and Kel, climbing up onto their horses and following after Maria.
"I'll just stay here and keep a watch on things," Kaitlin said trying to inch toward the fire circle.
Cleon popped up out of oblivion. "Hi Kaitlin. What's going on?"
Kaitlin screamed and leaped four feet in the air, having been scared out of her wits by the sudden awakening of Mister Cleon.
"See how much better it is out there than here?" Alanna wheedled.
"Fine!" Kaitlin yelled sobbing from fear.
"Well then lets get a move on!" Alanna yelled whistling to call Dusk and swinging up onto his back.
Kaitlin inched slowly up to her horse and got up nimbly carefully nudging her horse into a slow trot. She followed Alanna at that speed until she was in the middle of the brawl.
Raoul grabbed Raganas and threw her onto a horse and did the same with Samkin. He reached over to do the same with Krizsta but she declined politely and went to mount up herself. Raoul shrugged and chucked Buri onto her horse before leaping onto his with the force of a raging train. Fortunately his horse was trained to withstand that so no injuries occurred.
"Lets go kick some ass." Krizsta said, narrowing her eyes to slits.
"Okey dokes!" Raoul said happily. "And away we go!"
"Catch me if you can!" Buri said, galloping over a charging soldier and taking his war axe.
"ELLUAIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Yelled Raganas. "That's my new battle cry, don't ya know." She added to Samkin and Krizsta.
"Okay then!" Samkin said taking up the cry. "ELLUAIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! This is a nice little battle cry."
"Thank you." Raganas said, nodding to him.
"Hey!" Rosefyre yelled. "I think I got somebody important!"
"Why do you think that?" Asked Caprice.
"He was wearing a feathered hat." Rosefyre said, as if stating the obvious. "Feathers are obviously signs of high rank."
"Of course." Caprice said wondering why on earth she didn't know something as obvious as that.
Meanwhile, Gregory and Liney were getting very impatient. Gregory had even taken up pacing in circles around the still semi-dazed Cleon.
"I can't just sit here!" Growled Liney. "What am I supposed to do while they fight? Sit here and knit? I don't even know how to knit!"
"Yes," Numair said, thoughtfully, "you don't strike me as a knitter."
"That's good." Liney snarled. "Knitting's for chumps." (AN: Sorry to any knitters, it's just her personality, k?)
"Augh!" Screamed Kaitlin. "That hurt you bastard! And I need that arm, too!" She then stabbed viciously at the offending soldier, killing him.
"I don't want to be here, either." Kathryn said. "I'm not a watcher! I'm a fighter! A fighter, I tell you!"
"We believe you." Marc said patting her shoulder.
"Damn, I can't just watch." Gregory said. "I've got to fight!"
"You can't." Neal said. "Not yet at least. You'll get your turn to shine."
"That was possibly the corniest thing I have heard the entire day." Liney said glaring disdainfully at Neal.
"Well sorry." Neal said sarcastically.
"I think it was thought provoking." Cleon said striking a pose.
"Whoa." Marc said. "I'm scared."
Cleon shook his head slightly and yelled, "FERRET!"
"Never mind." Marc said.
~*~
"Keep your heads down." Cat advised dragging Meron on his leash. "People are shooting at us apparently. Oh, hullo Bryan." She added to an approaching young man about their age. "You've gotten a new hat I see."
"Do you like it?" Bryan asked. "I think it makes me look high-ranked."
"What's with the feather?" Nell asked, sneering.
Bryan looked sad. "You don't like it?"
"It's fine." Nell said, narrowly being missed by an arrow that zipped by her head.
Bryan, sadly, was not so lucky. The arrow struck him in the throat. With a final gurgle his eyes rolled up into his head and he slumped to the ground, dead as a doornail.
"Talk about your bad karma!" Maddy remarked.
"Huh?" Asked Meron.
"I don't know!" Maddy piped up, gleefully. "I wish I had a cinnamon bun."
"That's why I love you!" Meron said frizzing up her hair. "So spontaneous and weird."
"That seems a reason to avoid someone," Nell muttered in Cat's ear. "Not to love them."
Cat shrugged. "Whatever floats their boat." At that another arrow clipped her arm. "Maybe we should get moving."
"That's probably a good idea." Nell said.
"Well, I'm just chock full of 'em." Cat said. "Those good idea things."
"Can I go to the bathroom?" Maddy asked hopping up and down, her legs crossed. "It's a 'mergency."
"No, you may not go to the bathroom." Nell said.
"Please!" Maddy cried. "I really have to go!"
"Fine!" Nell cried, exasperatedly. "Follow me and hurry up!" She dragged Maddy off toward a small chamber pot in the corner.
"I'm not going in that!" Maddy cried. "That's disgusting."
"Beggars can't be choosers." Meron reminded her.
"Feh." Maddy said, sticking out her tongue. "Turn around. No peeping!" She then proceeded to squat down above the chamber pot to do her, erm, business. "Done." She remarked, pulling up her breeches and straightening her shirt.
"Okey doke!" Meron said, smiling. He had peeped, but he wasn't about to fill Maddy in on that. (AN: Disgusting male! Feh! Hehe.)
"Well, let's get a move on!" Cat said, beginning to feel slightly agitated.
~*~
I hope you guys liked that. It took me FOREVER to write. *Slumps onto the keyboard as Goku, Inuyasha and Miroku prop her back up* Thanks guys.
Goku: No problemo!
Inuyasha: Feh.
Don't you feh me, buddy! *Glares at Miroku* And don't even attempt your little "tricks." And Goku! Get smarter! *Goes on a wild war page*
Miroku: Ooh, you'd better review. Fighting's feeble when she's in a rage like this. *Cowers under the table with Goku and Inuyasha*
*Smiles sweetly* Please review. *Snarls*
Luv,
LadyKnight, Miroku, Inuyasha, and Goku
"Yes they do, Kate." Said Rosefyre in a tone she should have reserved for a puppy that had just learned how to sit on command. She picked up and arrow that had the arrowhead broken off. "Here's a stick! Go fetch the stick!" She then chucked the "stick" in the general direction of the fire- circle.
"What do you think I am?" Kate asked, giving Rosefyre a funny look.
"Ow!" Cleon yelled as the arrow hit him on the head. "Who threw that? My brain is in pain! Boo hoo! That really hur-" Suddenly his eyes rolled up and he fell over. No more said, completely unconscious.
"Don't worry, hun." Liney said, patting the unconscious Cleon on the arm reassuringly. "It's probably just a little bad karma."
"Oh!" Gregory exclaimed stepping nimbly over the fainted Cleon. "Is that that inner chi thang?"
"Probably!" Liney said happily. "You wanna spar?"
"Now, now, you two." Numair said. "I told you not to fight. You aren't properly trained in any of the weapons we have and you still aren't fully recovered yet."
"I meant with each other." Liney said, rolling her eyes.
"I got one!" Olivia yelled triumphantly, standing up, doing a little dance and waving her sling around happily.
"Sit down!" Kaytee said, yanking Olivia to the ground by tugging on the back of her shirt. "And watch where you're waving your weapon."
"Sorry." Olivia said, blushing slightly.
"You should be sorry!" Any said waving her arms around. "You could have been shot! You could have been killed! You could have been killed and shot!"
"Or worse," Lady Light said, "You could have been shot and killed."
"That's what she said!" Caprice cried. "Wait, isn't it?"
"Yes," said Lady Light. "I just thought it needed to be emphasized a little more."
"They're opening the gates!" Yelled Alanna.
"They're opening the gates!" Repeated Maria. She then paused and frowned, glancing nervously at the slowly opening gates. "They really are!"
"Well, duh." Diana said, sighing exasperatedly.
"Will somebody get my horse for me?" Kaitlin asked, shivering slightly.
Kel sighed and shook her head. "You've got no problems with fighting a big war, but you still get skittish around horses. I don't get it."
"I've had bad experiences with horses." Kaitlin said shyly.
"And you haven't had bad experiences with war?" Raganas asked.
"Well...yes...but horses are freaky!" Kaitlin cried. "And bad experiences really stick you know, especially ones that really hurt."
"Well, if at first you don't succeed try, try again." Samkin said.
"I prefer, if at first you don't succeed, don't try to fly." Krizsta said happily.
"Yeah..." Samkin said, "I guess that would work too."
"I wish I had a tail." Kate remarked out of the blue, still firing arrows at deadly accuracy. "It'd be so cool." She glanced forlornly at her tail- less rear, as if willing a tail to just pop up.
"I have a tail." Peter teased, snickering. "Do you want to see my tail?"
"You most certainly do not have a tai-" Kate stopped mid-argument. "That's disgusting, Peter!"
"We always get them with that, don't we?" Marc said, punching Peter playfully in the shoulder.
Peter fell over with the impact of the punch. "Marc!" He yelled. "Don't do that!"
"Marc!" Kathryn yelled. "Don't do that! Idiot."
"Geez," Marc said. "At least Peter was sort of nice about it."
"Feh!" Kathryn remarked simply.
"Feh yourself." Marc said, sticking out his tongue.
"Stop arguing and get back to fighting!" George shouted. "And don't take your eyes off your target."
"Anybody going into the herding masses, let us depart now from are humble set." Dom said with an artistic flourish.
"Don't get your pantyhose in a bunch." Krizsta said.
"Yeah, and why are you riding out?" Asked Daine. "You're an archer."
"Yes, but I'm an experienced archer." Dom said, becoming very full of himself, if I do say so myself. Indeed!
"I told you to not get your pantyhose in a bunch!" Krizsta said prodding Dom in the chest.
"I DON'T WEAR PANTYHOSE!" Screamed Dom, so loudly that mating birds in the nearby trees cheeped alarms and took flight.
"I should hope not, lad." Raoul said, mounting his horse.
"Well are you going or are you going to sit around like boobs all day?" Olivia asked.
"Well, personally I'd choose to be a boob, but well," Gregory said with a sigh, "duty calls, eh?" He grabbed a nearby horse and attempted to clamber onto it's back.
"Oh no you don't, laddie buck." Liney said grabbing Gregory's leg and yanking him back to the ground.
"Oof!" Gregory said landing on top of something vaguely squishy. "What is this thing?" He said, poking at it.
"It's me you idiot!" Liney yelled at Gregory, causing him to fall over.
"Whatever," Maria said. "I'm off." She grabbed the horse she had tacked up earlier and her sword and galloped into the mass of approaching enemies."
"Wait for me!" Yelled Diana and Kel, climbing up onto their horses and following after Maria.
"I'll just stay here and keep a watch on things," Kaitlin said trying to inch toward the fire circle.
Cleon popped up out of oblivion. "Hi Kaitlin. What's going on?"
Kaitlin screamed and leaped four feet in the air, having been scared out of her wits by the sudden awakening of Mister Cleon.
"See how much better it is out there than here?" Alanna wheedled.
"Fine!" Kaitlin yelled sobbing from fear.
"Well then lets get a move on!" Alanna yelled whistling to call Dusk and swinging up onto his back.
Kaitlin inched slowly up to her horse and got up nimbly carefully nudging her horse into a slow trot. She followed Alanna at that speed until she was in the middle of the brawl.
Raoul grabbed Raganas and threw her onto a horse and did the same with Samkin. He reached over to do the same with Krizsta but she declined politely and went to mount up herself. Raoul shrugged and chucked Buri onto her horse before leaping onto his with the force of a raging train. Fortunately his horse was trained to withstand that so no injuries occurred.
"Lets go kick some ass." Krizsta said, narrowing her eyes to slits.
"Okey dokes!" Raoul said happily. "And away we go!"
"Catch me if you can!" Buri said, galloping over a charging soldier and taking his war axe.
"ELLUAIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!" Yelled Raganas. "That's my new battle cry, don't ya know." She added to Samkin and Krizsta.
"Okay then!" Samkin said taking up the cry. "ELLUAIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! This is a nice little battle cry."
"Thank you." Raganas said, nodding to him.
"Hey!" Rosefyre yelled. "I think I got somebody important!"
"Why do you think that?" Asked Caprice.
"He was wearing a feathered hat." Rosefyre said, as if stating the obvious. "Feathers are obviously signs of high rank."
"Of course." Caprice said wondering why on earth she didn't know something as obvious as that.
Meanwhile, Gregory and Liney were getting very impatient. Gregory had even taken up pacing in circles around the still semi-dazed Cleon.
"I can't just sit here!" Growled Liney. "What am I supposed to do while they fight? Sit here and knit? I don't even know how to knit!"
"Yes," Numair said, thoughtfully, "you don't strike me as a knitter."
"That's good." Liney snarled. "Knitting's for chumps." (AN: Sorry to any knitters, it's just her personality, k?)
"Augh!" Screamed Kaitlin. "That hurt you bastard! And I need that arm, too!" She then stabbed viciously at the offending soldier, killing him.
"I don't want to be here, either." Kathryn said. "I'm not a watcher! I'm a fighter! A fighter, I tell you!"
"We believe you." Marc said patting her shoulder.
"Damn, I can't just watch." Gregory said. "I've got to fight!"
"You can't." Neal said. "Not yet at least. You'll get your turn to shine."
"That was possibly the corniest thing I have heard the entire day." Liney said glaring disdainfully at Neal.
"Well sorry." Neal said sarcastically.
"I think it was thought provoking." Cleon said striking a pose.
"Whoa." Marc said. "I'm scared."
Cleon shook his head slightly and yelled, "FERRET!"
"Never mind." Marc said.
~*~
"Keep your heads down." Cat advised dragging Meron on his leash. "People are shooting at us apparently. Oh, hullo Bryan." She added to an approaching young man about their age. "You've gotten a new hat I see."
"Do you like it?" Bryan asked. "I think it makes me look high-ranked."
"What's with the feather?" Nell asked, sneering.
Bryan looked sad. "You don't like it?"
"It's fine." Nell said, narrowly being missed by an arrow that zipped by her head.
Bryan, sadly, was not so lucky. The arrow struck him in the throat. With a final gurgle his eyes rolled up into his head and he slumped to the ground, dead as a doornail.
"Talk about your bad karma!" Maddy remarked.
"Huh?" Asked Meron.
"I don't know!" Maddy piped up, gleefully. "I wish I had a cinnamon bun."
"That's why I love you!" Meron said frizzing up her hair. "So spontaneous and weird."
"That seems a reason to avoid someone," Nell muttered in Cat's ear. "Not to love them."
Cat shrugged. "Whatever floats their boat." At that another arrow clipped her arm. "Maybe we should get moving."
"That's probably a good idea." Nell said.
"Well, I'm just chock full of 'em." Cat said. "Those good idea things."
"Can I go to the bathroom?" Maddy asked hopping up and down, her legs crossed. "It's a 'mergency."
"No, you may not go to the bathroom." Nell said.
"Please!" Maddy cried. "I really have to go!"
"Fine!" Nell cried, exasperatedly. "Follow me and hurry up!" She dragged Maddy off toward a small chamber pot in the corner.
"I'm not going in that!" Maddy cried. "That's disgusting."
"Beggars can't be choosers." Meron reminded her.
"Feh." Maddy said, sticking out her tongue. "Turn around. No peeping!" She then proceeded to squat down above the chamber pot to do her, erm, business. "Done." She remarked, pulling up her breeches and straightening her shirt.
"Okey doke!" Meron said, smiling. He had peeped, but he wasn't about to fill Maddy in on that. (AN: Disgusting male! Feh! Hehe.)
"Well, let's get a move on!" Cat said, beginning to feel slightly agitated.
~*~
I hope you guys liked that. It took me FOREVER to write. *Slumps onto the keyboard as Goku, Inuyasha and Miroku prop her back up* Thanks guys.
Goku: No problemo!
Inuyasha: Feh.
Don't you feh me, buddy! *Glares at Miroku* And don't even attempt your little "tricks." And Goku! Get smarter! *Goes on a wild war page*
Miroku: Ooh, you'd better review. Fighting's feeble when she's in a rage like this. *Cowers under the table with Goku and Inuyasha*
*Smiles sweetly* Please review. *Snarls*
Luv,
LadyKnight, Miroku, Inuyasha, and Goku